The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is coming up again. CCTV recently announced that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will build a water stage in Wuhu, Anhui Province, and hold a party that will be broadcast live to the world. After the performance of songs, dance, opera, acrobatics and so on. The grand finale will be a "dance on the water," set off by Chinese elements such as a horse-head wall, brick and wood stone carvings, and stacked buildings, creating an atmosphere of unity between heaven and man. The above media reports, though vague, have raised expectations. The author's recent involvement in the planning of a Mid-Autumn Festival event in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, with "Walking Under the Moon" as the main program, really coincides with this.
Walking in the Moon is an ancient piece of mass literature.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the Chinese worship of the moon god. People regard the full moon as the god of reunion, marriage, youth, good luck, song and dance. Walking on the Moon is an ancient popular literature . The Song people added the fifteenth day of the eighth month to the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the Jin people and the fifteenth day of the first month of the Tang people. The Xuanhe Shuguang (Records of the Xuanhe Book), Song dynasty, Yun: "Nanguan, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the dancers under the moon are the most joyful." During the Mid-Autumn Festival, women were the main topic of moon worship, but not always. Su Dongpo once "danced out of the shadow." Inherited the custom of the Ming Dynasty Tian Rucheng "West Lake Excursion Zhi Yu Xichao music" cloud: the Mid-Autumn Festival, "the folk to the moon cake as a business, to take the reunion of the meaning. At night, people have a feast to enjoy the moon, or boat along the lake to see the morning. Above the Su Causeway, there was no difference between singing with daylight." At that time, reunion dinner, exchanging mooncakes and stomping songs were the three main festive activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Dancing under the moon***", "embracing each other for a long time", "walking in synchronization for a long time" this is how vivid and beautiful image description ah! It's like singing and stomping. The women are all dressed in beautiful clothes, holding hands, with their skirts linked together, the hazy moonlight and the dancing figures
Treading is also called "Treading Song". Because most of the participants were women, it was called "Treading Song" or "Treading Ballad" at that time. Luo Qiu's poem "Bihong'er" says: "There are beautiful songs upstairs, and the night frost curls up. Lately I have suspended my walks with the singing girls." Ancient foot-stomping songs also overflowed into festivals and were used for other occasions, such as celebrating the recapture of lost territory, celebrating people's birthdays, and bidding farewell to friends. For example, Li Bai's "Suddenly I heard a foot-stomping song on the shore," and "It's better than Wang Lun."
Treading green is a kind of "embracing **** dance", "tread green for the festival" collective song and dance. It is characterized by stepping to strengthen the beat of the song, singing a tune over and over again, or accompanied by drums. A number of distinctive rhythms and well-organized styles of music have been produced in the Song Treading, and the singing method of "different words in the same key" has also been created. The songs are catchy and easy to learn and remember; the dances are different from those in the general sense, that is, the so-called group dances of today, which are simpler to learn and easier to master than the artistic dances - the dances, as the name implies, only need to step to the beat of the songs.
Group singing events are more in keeping with the nature of festival culture than professional, spectator performances.
People should be more than mere spectators of cultural performances during the holidays.
Chinese people have been able to sing and dance since ancient times. Reviving Chinese culture and restoring the characteristics of songs and dances for all should also be on the agenda.
Happily, in recent years, with the country's development and progress in all aspects, people's spirits have gradually become more active, and festivals have become
Holidays are nationwide, and are essentially revelry. One should not be a mere spectator on a holiday, just a spectator. The heart of the festival is not professional actors performing songs, dances and plays, but mass events like stomping songs. They "generally do not belong to the realm of art", but are "on the border between art and life itself". It is best not to go on stage, which can easily lead to a gap between people; if there is a stage on the spot, you can still go on and off the stage, and both professional performers and audience members can go on stage. The ungraded, cathartic and poppy nature of tap dance songs fits the carnival atmosphere and is helpful in achieving a harmonious scene.
It is for this reason that tap songs, a seemingly effortless form of popular art and literature, are highly valued by UNESCO. In Korea, "The Moon Comes to the Water", which is performed during the Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals, is a nationalized version of an ancient tapsong imported from China and was inscribed as a masterpiece of the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. This gives us inspiration and encouragement: combining the ancient foot-stomping song with modern street and square dances can be a wonderful part of today's festivals; the ancient Chinese foot-stomping song forms passed down in Japan and Korea can be reintroduced into China by "taking them back"; "Walking in the Moon" can not only be performed at the Mid-Autumn Festival, but can also be performed at the Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals, such as "The Moon is Coming to Water". "Walking in the Moon" can be held not only on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also on other festivals; some conscious grass-roots community cultural centers can even set up "tap dance teams" to actively promote its popularity.
Bakhtin said, "Festivals are the most important primitive form of human culture." They must be recognized not only in terms of means and necessities, but also in terms of the highest purpose of human existence, the ideal. So the spiritual and intellectual realm is definitely involved. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, let us "walk in the moonlight", which contains the spiritual concepts of the unity of man and heaven, reverence for nature, interpersonal harmony, physical and mental harmony, and enhance cohesion.